Too many people live too much in the past. The past must be a springboard, not a sofa. — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
If ever the call comes to them, the young will go straight from the ranks of the neutralists into the ranks of he Majesty's Forces, as they have so often done in the past. — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth. — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
A successful current affairs television show seems to be more and more a cross between a music hall turn and a scene in a… — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch. — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy. — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
You will find the Americans much like the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also… — Harold Macmillan Copy Share Image
Churchill was fundamentally what the English call unstable - by which they mean anybody who has that touch of genius which is inconvenient in… — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
He (Aneurin Bevan) enjoys prophesying the imminent fall of the capitalist system, and is prepared to play a part, any part, in its burial,… — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion. — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
A Foreign Secretaryand this applies also to a prospective Foreign Secretaryis always faced with this cruel dilemma. Nothing he can say can do very… — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur. — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
There are three bodies no sensible man directly challenges: the Roman Catholic Church, the Brigade of Guards and the National Union of Mineworkers — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
